Overview
- Focusses on the intersection of memory and identity in post-communist Europe
- Chapters showcase findings on memory and interrogating methods from literature, history, anthropology, politics and more
- Provides a forum for methodological innovation, prizing interdisciplinarity over multidisciplinary ‘siloisation’
Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies (PMMS)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Subjectivity and the Ethics of Memory
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Locating and Situating the Past
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Representation and Production of Cultural Memory
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Memory Reception and the Grassroots
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About this book
This book offers a collection of innovative methodological approaches to Memory Studies in Russia and Eastern Europe. Providing insights into the relationship between memory and identity, the twelve chapters provide multidisciplinary analysis of how history is used to reinforce, remould, and reinvent national and group identities.
This analysis includes a strong emphasis on interrogating the role of the researcher and the impact of methodology, exploring the field’s most pressing challenges, such as the subjectivity of remembrance, reception versus production of discourse, and the inclusion of marginal perspectives.
By focussing on countries in which the past is highly politicised, including Serbia, Ukraine, Poland, Russia and the Baltic States, the volume also analyses the diverse – and often conflicting – ways in which historical narratives emerge from these states’ efforts to create new pasts that shape their respective visions of the future, with pressing ramifications across this region and beyond.
Reviews
❝Oliver Jones and Jade McGlynn’s volume is a timely and useful collection of innovative chapters dealing with numerous methodological issues that students of current memory politics in Eastern Europe and beyond have to deal with. It critically examines the approaches and methods of disciplines as different as psychology, moral philosophy, literary studies, history, sociology, and political science, in search of a productive dialogue between researchers involved in this increasingly important multidisciplinary field.❞ (Nikolay Koposov, Distinguished Professor of the Practice, School of History and Sociology and School of Literature, Media, and Communication, USA)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jade McGlynn is Director of the Monterey Trialogue Initiative at Middlebury Institute of International Studies. She completed her DPhil (Russian) at the University of Oxford, where she also worked as a lecturer. She frequently comments on Russia for the media. Her monograph, The Kremlin’s Memory Makers, will be published in 2022.
Oliver T. Jones did his DPhil in German & Russian at the University of Oxford. His research interests lie in comparative literature and memory studies. He previously studied in London, Berlin, St Petersburg and Moscow, and was a visiting fellow at the Davis Center for Russian & Eurasian Studies at Harvard.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Researching Memory and Identity in Russia and Eastern Europe
Book Subtitle: Interdisciplinary Methodologies
Editors: Jade McGlynn, Oliver T. Jones
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99914-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99913-1Published: 07 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99916-2Published: 08 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-99914-8Published: 06 October 2022
Series ISSN: 2634-6257
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6265
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 218
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Memory Studies, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Oral History